Miru Kim

Miru Kim is a New York based artist that has explored many ruins such as, tunnels, sewers, abandoned subways, factories, catacombs, hospitals, and shipyards. In 2007 she was announced best and brightest in the Esquire magazine. She was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1981 and moved to New York in 1999 to attend Columbia University. Her work has been noticed by tons of people including, The New York Times, TED.com, The Financial Times, NY Arts Magazine, ARTE France, Ovation TV, Time Out New York, PopPhoto.com, The Korea Daily, La Stampa, Berlingske Tidende, VanityFair.de, and Dong-A Daily. Public collections of her work include Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. Some of her work is Naked City Spleen, blind window and Isidore Roussel.

Ryan Lobo

Ryan Lobo uses compassionate storytelling to take his photos. For the last 10 years Ryan has been travelling all over the world to make pictures and videos to reflect on humanism, empathy and sensitivity. In 2001 Ryan co-founded Mad Monitor Productions and has successfully aired his videos on National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Channel International, Animal Planet, The Oprah Winfrey Show and PBS. His images have been seen in Outlook traveler, Marie Claire, Elle, Tehelka, Better photography, The Wall Street Journal, GEO magazine, Time Out, National Geographic Magazine, the Boston review, Chimurenga, Onzeweruld, the Wall Street Journal and Glamour magazine. His art prints are also all over India and Europe.

Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She graduated at Brown University as a Guggenheim Fellow. Simon’s photos have been presented nationally and internationally including, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Her images and writing have been viewed in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, CNN, BBC, Frontline, and NPR and has recently published an American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.